![]() He begins to search for a new cat, and finds a large black one with a white splotch on its chest at one of the taverns he frequents. ![]() The narrator explains it away, but is nonetheless shaken. ![]() The following day, the narrator visits the ruins of the house and finds on the one standing wall an image of a cat with a rope around its neck. Later that night, the narrator’s entire house burns down. ![]() The narrator becomes so angry at Pluto’s avoidance that one day, he decides to hang him from a tree. Pluto, of course, avoided the narrator and the narrator began to be irritated by this. He is ashamed in the present of his deed, but back then, his shame only lasted a short while. One night, in a drunken stupor, the narrator thinks Pluto is avoiding him, so he seizes him and cuts out one of his eyes. The narrator confesses that he is an alcoholic, and this made him violent towards everyone – his wife and his pets, but he was able to keep himself from abusing Pluto. He married young and his wife made sure they had many animals, especially one particularly large black cat named Pluto. He was a peculiar boy, particularly fond of animals. The narrator is telling his story as a condemned man, flashing back to the beginning. ![]() Example “The Black Cat” Plot Diagram Exposition ![]()
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